HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Andre Deutsch.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine, none to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.99. Very slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels to prelims. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks or tanning to text, slightly dusty to top-edge. GD++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 188 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: Set in the third millenium when a paper destroying blight has reduced the written history of the world to virtually nil, a fossilized diary comes to light. It details the absurd world of an espionage related society existing in an isolated environment where the enemy no longer exists. Paranoia fighting bureaucracy an unsettling reflection on our own modern lives.* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st/1st with library stamps reducing it to GD++. Now in protective dust jacket.*

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Seller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 2119
Title: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Author: Lem, Stanislaw
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD++/VG++/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Thus,
ISBN 10: 0233987894
ISBN 13: 9780233987897
Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd
Place of Publication: London UK 208
Date Published: 1992-08-13

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...